1-(3-tert-Butyl-4-hydroxyphenyl)ethanone

Abstract

The title compound, C12H16O2, is approximately planar (r.m.s. deviation = 0.030 Å), apart from two methyl groups of the tert-butyl unit [deviations of the C atoms = 1.140 (2) and −1.367 (1) Å]. In the crystal, intermolecular O—H...O hydrogen bonds link the molecules into hexameric rings with R66(48) graph-set motifs.